Authorial intentionalism and identitarian authoritarianism.

Fischer, Molly. “Who Did J.K. Rowling Become?” The Cut, 22 Dec. 2020, www.thecut.com/article/who-did-j-k-rowling-become.html.

Apart from advancing philosophical objections to trans identity, Stock’s work focuses on aesthetics, and in that field, she is a proponent of “extreme intentionalism.” Set in opposition to Continental theory, this view holds that fiction is “a set of instructions to imagine certain things” — a book means whatever its writer says it does. The author is always right.